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Religious.

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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. 419

Ivory

Height: 67mm (without base)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; bench.

Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century (before 1887), in a 14th-century style.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (Virgin's lips), black (eyes).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Worn. Missing: Virgin's right forearm.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, 2. Abt. Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 7, fig. 11.

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